Tales from the Support Rogue

WP Grins SSL

SSL Grins will provide clickable smilies for both the post form in the admin interface and the comments form of your blog. SSL Grins is a fork of WP Grins that allows for use on a site using Administration over SSL or not, auto-detecting which is why and displaying either way.

As of version 4.0, SSL Grins also works on bbPress (the plugin) and has an option to turn it on or off as desired.

Download

Installation

Install and activate the plugin.

Visit your Discussion Settings page.

Look for ‘Smilies’ and check boxes as desired. (Comments are activated by default)

FAQ

Q. Why don’t the smilies show up in my comments form?A. Your theme must include the wp_head call and the comments field in your theme must have an id of comment. This version of the plugin does not support manual insertion, because, frankly, no decent WordPress theme is lacking wp_head anymore. If yours is, get a new theme. I’m not supporting bad code (unless it’s mine).

Q. I have wp_head and they still don’t show upA. If you’re using Google Pagespeed, be careful how much you concatonate JS and CSS. It’s complicated.

Q. Why did this start with version 2?A. Because the previous fork-source was 1.0, and this is really just an extension of all that work. Wanted to keep Ronafly’s credits up in there!

Q. Will you support BuddyPress?A. Not at this time as I’m not using it enough to make it sustainable.

Q. This isn’t showing up on bbPress!A. If you’re using the bbPress Fancy Editor, it won’t work. I have not yet debugged this.

Q. I’m using the new smilies and some are missing!A. Yes, they are. The following are ‘hidden': “bear”, “wordpress”, “martini”, “developer”, “whiterussian”, “burrito”, “facepalm”, “kitten”, “uneasy”

And those aren’t the codes. Try (w) or =^-^= and see what happens. These are easter eggs.

Changelog

5.2.3

2014 Oct 4, by Ipstenu

Adjusting check for New Smilies‘ new smilies to cover for people who leave the folder named ‘new-smilies-master’ – THANKS GITHUB!